10 Weird Health Theories That Just Won’t Go Away
Blogger Jim Edwards has a list of “10 Weird Health Theories That Just Won’t Go Away.”
Many of them flower from the backlash to the medical industrial complex’s desire to medicalize, and provide a pill for, all slightly different human behaviors. Others underscore how appropriate skepticism about modern medicine can lead to an over-correction and an endorsement of wrongheaded and dangerous ideas (autism being caused by vaccines as a prominent example).
Here’s the list of myths: